Teva UK promotes Richard Daniell to managing director. He succeeds Dipankar Bhattacharjee who has in turn been promoted to a wider European role

He takes over from Dipankar Bhattacharjee who has in turn been promoted to a wider European role at the company that will see the UK form one of the territories under his guidance.

Daniell has spent more than 20 years working within the Teva group of companies.

Prior to becoming commercial operations manager in 2009 he was a senior director at Teva UK and before that spent two and a half years as director of generics at IVAX Pharmaceuticals UK.

He said: “I'm excited about driving the future and vision of Teva in the UK. We want to keep growing, and keep serving our customers well, and I'm confident we can do both of those things with the talented people we have in our team.

“I'm delighted to be leading such a forward-thinking organisation and I'm proud to be at the helm of one of the UK's leading pharmaceutical companies.”